Under the city of Jiangyin, Bo Luo and Liu Liangzuo were furious.At this time, Zhao Ming and his party had already run for dozens of miles, the sky was bright, the air was fresh in the early morning, and there was a dense forest in front of them.Twenty people went out of the city, half of them were lost, and only ten people remained, and except for Zhao Ming, almost everyone was injured, but everyone's faces were very excited.Dozens of people were killed from the camp of tens of thousands of Qing troops, I am afraid that only in the storytelling romance, everyone was full of pride, and unconsciously regarded themselves as heroes.At this time, Zhao Ming galloped to the front of the woods, reined in the reins of the horse, and looked up to the sky and smiled.Wang Deshun followed breathlessly, and after the passion, his hands and feet were trembling."
Deshun, you are good."
Zhao Ming praised it."
Niang Xipi, shall we rush out?"
Wang Deshun still can't believe what he saw."
Rush out!"
Zhao Ming was quite complacent, turned over and dismounted, "I said that if I take you to break through, you will definitely be able to kill it." ”The crowd dismounted and prepared to go into the forest to rest, when a group of soldiers with hats or turbans suddenly jumped out of the woods, and bows and arrows and birds were aimed at them.The sudden change made Zhao Ming stunned, and Wang Deshun and the others behind him were suddenly dumbfounded, and slowly raised their hands one by one, Wang Deshun beat his chest, and regretted in his heart, "I knew that I couldn't believe the surname Zhao!"
”The group is as quiet as death, it's over, no matter how capable you are, as soon as the bird is released, it will have to be beaten into a sieve.When Wang Deshun and the others were desperate, Zhao Ming suddenly burst out laughing, and a person who came out of the forest also laughed.Wang Deshun was confused, but when he looked closely, these people's hair was still there, indicating that they were not Qing soldiers."
Brother Boan!
I've found you!
”He Wencheng saw Zhao Ming and ran over excitedly.Zhao Ming grabbed his hand and was also a little excited, "Chang Geng, why are you here?"
”He Wencheng sighed and said: "I originally followed the Tang King to Zhejiang, but soon the Qing soldiers followed and killed, King Lu Jianguo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Ma Shiying and Fang Guoan fled south, and Hangzhou also fell.I didn't know where to go, so I headed north to find you and Damu!
”After the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, Ma Shiying fled to Hangzhou and supported King Lu, who had competed with King Fu, that is, His Royal Highness, who was praised by the Donglin Party as a very virtuous person, and became the Ming Dynasty Supervisor and re-established the regime.However, Ma Shiying and others, after the establishment of the Lu Wang Jian State regime, did not actively prepare for war, but sued for peace with the Manchus, but were easily destroyed by the Manchus.Of course, King Lu is in charge of the country's regime, there is no money and no soldiers, Ma Shiying is actually a scoundrel, he has no cards to play.Zhao Ming's face sank, Ma Shiying ran away again, and now in addition to the Hongguang Imperial Court, he also had to take the blame for the pot of Hangzhou King Lu's prison country.He Wencheng didn't notice Zhao Ming's face, he looked at the few people behind Zhao Ming, and suddenly asked, "What about Brother Da Mu?"
Brother Boan, where are you going?
”Zhao Ming came back to his senses, "Damu is in Jiangyin City, surrounded by Qing soldiers.I came out of Jiangyin to find reinforcements to rescue Jiangyin. ”Saying that, Zhao Ming's expression became heavy, "Now that Zhezhong has fallen into the hands of the Qing army?"
”He Wencheng nodded and said in a low voice: "Hangzhou has fallen!"
”At this time, Cheng Bi behind Zhao Ming frowned, "Zhejiang has fallen, where else can we go to ask for reinforcements?"
”Zhao Ming and his entourage were silent for a while, and their morale was low, but He Wencheng said: "Brother Bo'an, I heard that there are righteous activities in Kunshan, Jiading, and Taihu Lake, maybe you can go there to have a look!"
”Zhao Ming turned over and pulled the reins of the horse when he heard this, "Let's go, let's go to Kunshan first, and then go to Jiading!"
”He Wencheng also turned over a horse, and Zhao Ming walked side by side, along the way Zhao Ming asked many questions, learned that the Qing soldiers attacked Hangzhou, Fang Guoan and the Qing soldiers fought fiercely under the city, King Lu did not help the Ming army, but with wine and food to pay the soldiers, angry Ming soldiers withdrew, and King Lu immediately opened the city to surrender to the Qing.Zhao Ming listened to He Wencheng's narration, shook his head when he heard it, and was so angry that he couldn't do it, on the way to resist the Qing Dynasty in the future, if I met this kind of dog thing, I would definitely be stabbed to death.Zhao Ming then asked the whereabouts of the Tang King again, He Wencheng shook his head, and he didn't know that Hangzhou fell too suddenly, and many officials in the city who were unwilling to surrender to Hangzhou were all pitted by King Lu, and the Tang King was in the chaos and there was no trace.After Chongzhen, the most promising ones to recover the Ming Dynasty were the Tang Kings and the Lu Kings.Tang King Zhu Yujian is completely different from other feudal kings raised within the high walls, he has suffered since childhood, grew up in adversity, knows the suffering of the people, and also has the world in mind, and his experience is not comparable to Hongguang and Lu Fan, these captive feudal kings.When he was a child, he was disliked by his grandfather and was imprisoned for more than ten years, but he was keen to read, and after inheriting the title of Tang king, he did not indulge in pleasure like other vassal kings, but helped the victims, and when the Qing army entered the Kou Pass, he formed a group of men and horses to go north to capture the king.It's just that this time King Qin did not bring him benefits, but was demoted to a concubine by Chongzhen and placed under house arrest on the high wall of Fengyang, and was not released until the Hongguang period.What happened to him made him completely different from other vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, and he was a vassal king with lofty aspirations.In the early days of King Lu, he was actually an ordinary vassal king, not as characteristic as King Tang, but after more than ten years of tempering the struggle against the Qing Dynasty, he finally became a vassal king with a heart for the world and a resolute character.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the vassal kings didn't have eyes to see, and only these two people could take on the responsibility of carrying the flag.Zhao Ming listened to He Wencheng's words, and couldn't help but feel a little worried, hoping that he would not change the trajectory of King Tang and let him escape to Fujian and ascend the throne smoothly.The fall of central Zhejiang further deteriorated the situation and made Zhao Ming and his party feel very heavy.They followed the trail and two days later reached the boundary of Kunshan, where they found that all the villages along the way were empty.The land south of the Yangtze River is densely populated, and there should be more or less people in the village, but at this time, it is even more dilapidated than in the north, it can be said that there are ten rooms and ten emptiness, and there is not even a ghost.Everyone went all the way to the east, and in the wilderness, not only did they not see the people, but even the Qing soldiers were nowhere to be seen, which gave Zhao Ming a bad premonition in his heart.When everyone approached Kunshan County, a southeast wind blew, and the air was mixed with a foul smell."
What's that?"
Wang Deshun suddenly screamed.When Zhao Ming and the others turned over a raised high ground, the scene that appeared in front of them made Zhao Ming's face change in shock.Under the city of Kunshan, there are small hills one after another, like the grass piles in the crops after the autumn harvest, but these small hills are not piled up with straw, all of them are corpses.Wang Deshun, He Wencheng and others, before they got close, covered their mouths and vomited wildly.Zhao Ming turned over and dismounted, his face turned pale, and he looked at the corpses stacked on top of each other.Among them, there are old and young, men and women, all of whom are highly rotten!
Zhao Ming walked all the way to the front of Kunshan City, looking in from the open city gate, the streets of the city were also covered with a layer of corpses, swarms of flies, maggots drilling on the corpses.Zhao Ming glanced at the corpses all over the city, knowing that it was too late, his eyes couldn't help but be filled with tears, and he remembered a poem, "The snow gizzard and white bones are all over the field, and the lonely loyalists are unwilling to surrender."
Message to pedestrians to cover their noses, the living are not as fragrant as the dead!
He stared at the shocking picture, and after half a ring, his fists were clenched, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Go, go to Jiading!"
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